header spelunking: 13 words of detail

[cimorene]

1. [Summary:] Then there is a short chapter at the end where it talks about a while after the fact.



2. Summary: A detailed fucking porn story, okay?
   Words: 13



3. Bilbo enjoys Smaug's company too much, so he doesn't really care if Smaug won't even hold hid hand in front of his friends...or does he?



4. Tags: fluffy, Hair Braiding, thorin's thoughts about you, it's kinda hot
   Summary: Fili and Kili kind of messed up and their actions caused Thorin to lose something valuable. He's bitter but perhaps you can console him :)



5. Tags: Fili/Kili Fili and Kili are NOT Brothers!
   
   Summary: Freckles, by Gene Stratton-Porter has been my favorite book since I could read. I see Aidan so strongly in the role. The book has been out of print for decades and is nearly forgotten. It's such a sweet coming of age/romance that it deserves an audience. Begging your patience, I have changed only enough to make this a Hobbit AU. All of the story except for the characters and dialog that had to be changed for AU purposes is original. I have no right to edit Ms. Porter's writing and why disturb perfection?
   
   Kili is an Irish orphan who was maimed as an infant and has only one hand. Too old to be able to stay at the orphanage he strikes out to find a job. He is hired to do one of the most difficult jobs - walking a 7 mile stretch through a huge forest and swamp alive with wild animals and not a few thieves who would steal the rare trees he is guarding. He has much to learn and to teach those around him. I think you will like this story if you give it a chance.
   
   The setting is turn-of-the-Century Northern Indiana (US) when the land was still wild and a huge forest was called The Limberlost.
   
   You may find the sentence structure and dialog archaic and a bit difficult at first. The book was first published in 1904.

I'm still o_O about the last one.
ETA: Google reveals it to be in the public domain, so at least it's not copyright violation, although it also obviously isn't fair use. It also isn't forgotten though, as it's been made into a movie 4 times, most recently in 1960, and the full text as well as an audiobook are available free in the first page of search results.

Comments

[pensnest]

Warning: Inadequate Facepalm Supply!

#2 Whut? 13? 13 Whut?

#5 I—but—tha—what? the? fuck?

[brownbetty]

I was O.o about 3 until I got to 5 and realized I had been premature.

[twistedchick]

I love Freckles! I didn't think anyone else had even heard of it. But I am not at all fond of the school of 'change a few words and insert your characters here', so to speak.

[brownbetty]

Haha, it definitely got me through my teenage years. Also, there's this one scene where she talks about her beautiful wavy/curly hair, which is pretty much my hair, and I'd never seen it eroticized before, even in a weak-kneed prime-time kinda way, so it was pretty exciting for me.

[krait]

...
......Unless that's a humanoid!Smaug, I can't quite figure out how a dragon can hold a hobbit's hand without also, by default, holding the rest of him, too.

Does Bilbo actually want Smaug to carry him around everywhere when his friends are watching, like he's some kind of DragonMaster? Because yeah, I can see why Smaug isn't down with that!

[msilverstar]

on your ETA: I'm pretty sure there is no limit on public domain content, including putting your name on it and claiming it as your own, with no copyright infringement or fair use involved, although it's still plagiarism and possibly fraud.

As the author on this cites the source, I think it's fully legal and ethically reasonable.

[cimorene]

You're right, fair use wasn't the term I wanted. Transformative is I guess what I meant, although technically it still is that, in a kind of postmodern way reminiscent of Garfield Minus Garfield and the like.

Anyway, since it's in the public domain it's obviously legal, and since there is no hypothetical injured party, the artistic ownership question is moot. The raised eyebrows probably stem from violation of fandom norms instead.

Fandom often looks askance at the inverse of filing the serial numbers off, as it were - putting the characters "on" to a pre-written text without actually rewriting it to fit the fandom. (You see that not infrequently, but usually the author wrote the text themselves...). I'd guess because it displays a lack of concern for canon characterization, and some fans get touchy about that. Of course there isn't actually inherently anything wrong with non-canon characterization, though, even if some people dislike it - plenty of people write and read it on purpose for a variety of reasons...